http://inanitylane.blogspot.com/2012/05/reprise.html

"Some people think I'm going to play poker again. It has even been suggested that I am playing poker now. The truth is, I haven't played a hand of poker since I left all those months ago. In fact, I made a bet with somebody that if I ever became a professional poker player again I would pay that person $50,000. I know I can make money at poker. I know that poker will always be there. I know that it is lucrative. I know I can go back if I want.

But I don't want to do that to myself. I don't want to become that. I want to grow and evolve as a person. What more could I learn from making money again as a poker player? I have done it long enough to know that there is nothing more in that world for me. I want to struggle. I want to feel anxiety. I want to be lost, confused, and to be forced to start over. Fear is the only way forward."

prolly the most interesting/comical part.. most of the post i could take seriously but hard to imagine in today's econ that someone who believes they could make a lucratuve living playing a game with 100% certainty, would say that they can gain nothing from it. most people dont work their jobs to gain some knowledge or understanding, they do it to earn a living and then have hobbies etc to learn and further themselves as a person but w/e

tl;dr

"I could see the small but treacherous valley between the J and the 9 that made that board so vicious." wut?

the guy sounds insane in some parts of his blog

Lol who cares about this douche anymore? Just go away.

I have some empathy for the guy. Anyway, this bit was pretty funny :

"I read its license plate “C3Y J98” - and all of a sudden J98 appeared to me like a poker board. I found myself wishing I had QT, thinking about check/raising this board"

People talking as if poker is not the be-all-end-all = people for whom poker is the be-all-end-all.

Uhm, so he's not allowed to post blogs anymore or?

Making a poker blog =/= posting the link on 2+2 because a lot of ppl might be interested.

He is very introspective and articulate. I enjoyed the blog entry, and there were some really cool pictures too.

Always funny when Americans discover that there is something else than Money and US of A on the planet.

This guy is such a cliché.

Yes, of course he is allowed to post blogs, but yes, he should go away.

It's always funny when people manage to shoehorn some weird "lol americans" stereotype into an analysis of anything. Everything's a cliché when you're always looking for one.

lol butthurt american

w/e, we got the guns and the money and the power, we saved your ass in WWII, you're welcome for the internet, etc.

In all seriousness though, the whole "lol americans are so awesome" vs. "lol americans are so stupid" debate deserves way more attention than this guy.

lol american

It does seem a lot of threads veer off into this kinda territory, and it's always so simplistic. America is a huge country, so of course some of it's great, and some of it sucks. That's probably way better than being Canadian - we're just boring.

this

LOL at the idea of this "pro" making a blog over not playing anymore. Take a utility player from baseball or a challanger circuit tennis player....Yeah I know I can still play and maybe kill it in the fishbowl of my world. I will use the snappy vernacular of the game, and "travel" the world using those snappy witicisms.

I would harldy click the mouse if Tiger came out with a blog featuring the women I banged blog....this celebrity apprentice wanna be...zzzzzz... When Belande kills you in ability, personality, english, and marketability....its time to just enjoy life and leave the public eye.....

wish him well just levae the world alone

The guy is a massive self-absorbed douche and his writing is hilariously bad. Look at the quotes people pulled from his blog in the other thread.

If you kind of settle on the idea that you have to make money somehow, then, yeah, I think you can take a lot out of various work experiences. Even if your path takes you out of the main stream work force, the great majority of people still have to do something to make money and that's a part of your life's journey.

It took me awhile to admit it to myself, but in my experience I have had jobs that I enjoy more than a high volume grind. OLP is fun for me in small doses but it gets kind of tedious day in and day out. Ofc, even though I've lived off poker winnings for short periods of time, I don't consider myself a pro and I have plenty of work experience so there's nothing especially intimidating about going out and finding a job, the state of the economy notwithstanding.

Does he remind you at all of F. Scott Fitzgerald?

He is still 100000000x better pokerplayer than any of you guys in this thread.

If he want`s to write like that, let him, who gives a **** you don`t have to read it.

Sure, but the average professional poker player probably has far less free-time to pursue hobbies than someone with a 'normal' job, let alone HS players.

So who is this guy and why is he so hated?

Bull****. I highly doubt that a lot of Professionalplayers play > 40h/week. MTT-Players maybe and even then people are way more lazy than you can imagine.

If you talk about HS-Players then compare them to there equivalent in the real world. There are a lot of people who work 60/h day.